“He Who Seeks… Finds in Google...!” This phrase says enough about the impact that Google has made on our lives. In the past few years, Google has taken over the World Wide Web by storm, overtaking a number of big market players in terms of revenues, and becoming the first company to cross the market capital of US $100 billion. Whether it is about searching, social networking, blogging, maps, mailing, Instant messengers, browsers or mobile applications, brand Google is everywhere. Here is a short story on Google’s journey.

Here are some useful guidelines on safeguarding a website against attacks like SQL injections, Denial of Service (DoS), Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and brute force attacks. These guidelines are not only just worth reading but also to be made a religious development practice.

Finding a hosting environment which meets the requirements with respect to the technology support, bandwidth, CPU, RAM and storage space is generally straight forward. However, there are some not so obvious factors which one learns only with experience. These factors could lead to painful real-life problems, and are seldom appreciated till they actually hit.

Most developers will be able to create solutions to meet the functional requirements of an application. However, to make it scalable where the application continues to perform well even with extremely high data volumes or user traffic requires a more detailed understanding of coding best practices, data model design, database optimization, communication between different layers of the software, server software configuration and many more.

With increased use of online and automated processes, more and more of sensitive and critical data is being handled by the web applications. As the stakes on the information and data stored by the portals become higher, so does the sophistication of hackers. Here are some of the common security threats, which you better be aware of.

E-marketing is emerging as a powerful, economical and scalable marketing strategy. Here are some tips on how you can do e-marketing for free.

Get an insight into things which you need to take care of while redesigning an existing website from a technical and search engine optimization perspective.

The power of AJAX has been unleashed during the past few years. It has taken the user experience and interactivity to a completely new level. But before you go ahead and dive in it, make yourself aware of the key pros and cons of using it.

Find out what should be the most important factors to consider while creating your website. Get an insight on how a website gets impacted by things like design, communication, navigation, content management, Search Engine Optimization, sticky features and other systemic qualities like security, scalability and maintainability.

Know how you can attract more traffic to your website using SEO, and understand the importance of doing SEO the right way. Some SEO practices which were used earlier but are now disregarded by search engines and a few words of caution are also highlighted.